The problem with this is udev doesnt know about a lot of devices. I
cant see the sense of trying to replace a simple makdev when needed
while having a large directory of nodes (that dont take up any space)
versus using often flaky, complex and problematic utilities like devfs
and udev where you have to do a fair bit of reading, ask on mail lists
and sacrifice chickens to get your new bluetooth dongle working!
Wheres the gain? - I certainly have had my share of pain (bluetooth,
cdroms, dvd's, ...) with both udev and devfs - devfs does seem less
problematic but I guess thats because its older. Overall, I find myself
wishing for the old system ...
BillK
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 04:07 +0200, Sven Khler wrote:
Hi,
i liked the idea of having very few devices in /dev. Since i installed
udev, i got plenty of them. AFAIK, the deives are saved on shutdown and
restored on boot. How can start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory
which is re-populated by udev?
Thx
Sven
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